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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Dallas News: Prosecutorial misconduct deserves 'more than a slap on the wrist'

A Dallas News staff editorial titled "Policing the Prosecutors" (Oct. 24) commented favorably on the state bar's lawsuit against Williamson County District Judge and former District Attorney Ken Anderson over alleged "Brady violations," or withholding exculpatory evidence, in the Michael Morton case, previewing the court of inquiry scheduled for December. However, they warned:

state lawmakers can’t wait for the results of these inquiries to
strengthen the laws against prosecutorial misconduct and find more
effective ways to prevent it.

One step advocated by experts,
including the state’s Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful
Convictions, is mandatory pretrial reciprocal file sharing between
prosecutors and defense attorneys. Cards on the table, in other words.

Identifying
blatantly malfeasant prosecutors is a tougher issue for lawmakers,
since those who make honest mistakes deserve legal protection, and
honest professionals should not be subject to harassment by criminals
who belong in prison.

But dishonesty and willful violation of
constitutional rights deserve more than a slap on the wrist. The
Legislature should make that clear.

If this means that the defense gives to the prosecution copies of all its documents (hardcopy and electronic), and copies of all its consultant's and expert's documents, then this is a pretty fundmental shift in how things are done.

Q. Can you expand on this, are there lawmakers somewhere with names just itching to strengthen laws...?

Sadly, I could be wrong but know damn well I'm not - The State Bar of Texas is comprised of dues paying frat / click of: attorneys / lawyers that mirror the TBP&P's Clemency Section that mirrors your typical Internal Affairs. All, secretly "Cherry Pick" through mounds of alleged injustice(s) as an illusion, in an attempt to make us think they are legit. Sleeping giants (glorified hall monitors’) until the Press, wealthy or famous get in their face.

Basically, faking out the public at large with toothless, red herring, way after the fact inquiries and the uncanny ability to systematically Ignore claims / petitions void of DNA, Death Row and not Active / Open 100% of the time. *There has to be more we can do besides hoping & praying the well dressed & degreed gangs spank themselves. Thanks.

With who-knows-how-many falsely accused and imprisoned people languishing in prisons (or graveyards) around the country due to judicial, prosecutorial and forensics misconduct/abuse, perhaps such misconduct and abuse by forensics workers, prosecutors and judges should carry a mandatory life sentence or the death penalty. Perhaps then, "justice for all" might actually mean something. Those that wield the power of life and death over citizens via gavels, guns, cages and needles would better serve us if they had the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. The search for the truth should never be sullied by: avarice; the greed of those who perpetuate the prison industrial complex; or an individual or group's quest for power.

So why not research the fact that Texas never allowed attorneys to vote in things that conflicted their interests? The Senate was mostly lawyers at the time they voted in the State Bar---and it's been getting more crooked, ever since. It's completely void, never existed, and they are so rich from it you/we will never stop them. No one in power goes by the laws that limit their power, anymore. Ask Drone Boy up there in Washout DC. But don't hallucinate it's just the randy twisted FEDS that are traitors.

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